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Marjorie Keniston McIntosh (born 15 November 1940) is an American
historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...
of
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.


Life and work

McIntosh was born in
Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor is a city in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851, making it the List of municipalities in Michigan, fifth-most populous cit ...
, on 15 November 1940. She graduated from
Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879. In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard Colle ...
in 1962 with a
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degree
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in European history. The following year she received a M.A. in English history from Harvard University. McIntosh studied at the
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in
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,
England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...
, in 1965–66 and was awarded her
Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...
in Tudor/Stuart history by Harvard in 1967. McIntosh was appointed
assistant professor Assistant professor is an academic rank just below the rank of an associate professor used in universities or colleges, mainly in the United States, Canada, Japan, and South Korea. Overview This position is generally taken after earning a doct ...
of history at the
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in 1979, promoted to
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seven years later, and to full professor in 1992. McIntosh received a
Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...
in 1995. Prior to retiring from the university in 2006, McIntosh was named a distinguished professor in history. She founded the Center for British and Irish Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and served as its first executive director. McIntosh is the organizer and principal coordinator of the Boulder County Latino History Project, a community-based study of a century of Latino participation, based largely on oral history interviews and with much of the research done by Latino teen/youth interns in Boulder, Colorado between January, 2013 and the present. In addition to helping to create the Boulder County Latino History Project and preparing material for its website, she is now engaged with the Project’s work with K-12 teachers. Additionally, McIntosh spent several working summer sabbaticals in Uganda, where she served as Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, East Africa in 2002–03. She later taught, organized, and trained students at another local university to conduct a historical study based on interviews and photo documentation of Muslims living in villages on the slopes of Mt. Elgon, Uganda. That study was conducted beginning in 2008 by students at the Islamic University in Uganda and continued over the following few years. McIntosh has published numerous books: * ''A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500–1620'', Cambridge University Press, 1991 * ''Controlling Misbehavior in England, 1370–1600'', Cambridge University Press, 1998 * ''Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering, 1200–1500'', Cambridge University Press, 2002. * ''Order, Control, and Regulation of Behavior in English Communities, 1350–1600'' * ''Working Women in English Society, 1300–1620'', Cambridge University Press, 2005 * ''Poor Relief in England, 1350–1600'', Cambridge University Press, 2011 * ''Poor Relief and Community in Hadleigh, Suffolk 1547-1600'', University Of Hertfordshire Press, 2013 * ''Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900–2003'', with Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo, Ohio University Press, 2007 * ''Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change'', Indiana University Press, 2009 * ''Latinos of Boulder County, Colorado, 1900-1980, Volume I: History and Contributions'', Old John Publishing, 2016 * ''Latinos of Boulder County, Colorado, 1900-1980, Volume II: Lives and Legacies'', Old John Publishing, 2016 She has also contributed chapters to several anthologies: * ''The Law and Social Change'', edited by J. A. Guy, Royal Historical Society (London, England), 1984 * ''Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of History and Literature in Fifteenth-Century England'', edited by Barbara Hanawalt and David Wallace, University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1996 * ''The Locus of Care: Families, Communities, Institutions and the Provision of Welfare since Antiquity'', edited by Peregrine Horden and Richard M. Smith, Routledge (London, England), 1998. Scholarly articles written by McIntosh have been published in such scholarly and academic journals as * ''Speculum'' * ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society'' * ''Essex Archaeology and History'' * ''Economic History Review'' * ''Journal of Family History'' * ''Albion'' * ''Journal of British Studies'' * ''Huntington Library Quarterly''.


Honors and awards

* Harvard Graduate fellow, 1962–64 * Frank Knox Memorial Traveling Fellow, 1965–66 * Howard Foundation Fellow, Brown University, 1976–77 * National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow, 1983–84 * Dean's Writing Prize, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1985, 1988 * Arts and Humanities Writing Award, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1989 * President's Award for Outstanding Service, University of Colorado, 1990 * Essex Book Award, 1991, for ''A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500–1620'' * Robert L. Stearns Award for Extraordinary Achievement, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1995 * Excellence in Teaching Award, Boulder Faculty Assembly, University of Colorado, 1995 * John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1995–96 * University of Colorado grants, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2004. McIntosh was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.


Family

McIntosh is married to J. Richard McIntosh, distinguished professor emeritus in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They have two sons and one daughter.


References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:McIntosh, Marjorie 1940 births Living people Radcliffe College alumni 21st-century American historians Academics from Ann Arbor, Michigan American expatriates in the United Kingdom University of Colorado faculty American women historians 21st-century American women Historians from Michigan